Highlights
Quality
Extremely impressed with the timely delivery and quality of the product.
We are using it exactly as the image used to advertise - with the 60gb hvr-dr60.
I love this camera the picture quality and audio quality is good!
The picture quality is phenomenal- but, we've mostly used standard dv since clients are quite ready to pay for hd.
Price
Cost is about $500 more than canon's comparable xh-a1 (which doesn't come with the microphone).
Packaging/appearance
Doesn't require a lot of tweaking, it looks good almost all the time right out of the box.
All in all this is a great little hd camera that takes great pictures right out of the box.
Competitiveness
Much better than the canons in it's price group.
For $2k more you can buy panasonic's hvx200, which has superior compression, and solid state capability, and slow motion in hig... Read More
For $3k more, you can buy sony's new xdcam pmw-1, which is an extremely impressive camera with a superior picture to any of these cameras.
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- This product had a total of 17 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 22 2020.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This camera is a workhorse too bad its not made anymore
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Let me say first i am not a professional national geographic videographer
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I purchased this camera specifically to shoot indoors
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The dr60 does have a better image quality
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I recently was in rocky mountain national park shooting elk with this camera
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I do concede the grain that some have talked about however the grain is so slight and the rebroadcast to the big screen tv and the bigger screen projection was almost unintelligible
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I would not hesitate to buy this camera because of the low light concerns that others have mentioned
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This camera is very easy to use